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The Eretrians, he said humorously, were like cuttle-fish in having a sword 1 but no heart.2

1 The ‘bone’ of the cuttle-fish; cf. Aristotle, Historia Animalium, iv. 1. 12.

2 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Themistocles, chap. xi. (118 A).

Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.

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